4 comments on "LinkedIn Hits 50 Million Milestone"

1. NEVA BRYAN from Appalachian Agency for Senior Citizens
   

   commented on: October 20, 2009 at 8:26 AM
   I agree. LinkedIn is not user friendly. It its format worked like Facebook, it would be much better for those who want to use it.

2. Nance Rosen from NanceSpeaks!
   

   commented on: October 19, 2009 at 11:25 AM
   The problem with LinkedIn is the lack of interactivity and the cumbersome profile page. The 50 million may be a dense target for advertisers, but for users it is equally dense - but not in a good way. The discussion questions posted are often ads and the responses languish at zero. When you receive the email with the list of "questions" and no responses to any of them, it's like you've being invited to question why you've sign up for any of the groups. There may be 50 million on LinkedIn but the site is set up like a bad networking meeting. Take a lesson from Match.com, Mashable, even Facebook or Twitter. Get some value in there by way of interactivity - right now it's a place to register, not a place to relate.

3. Langston Richardson from Lazbro
   

   commented on: October 15, 2009 at 3:28 PM
   The article also helps nudge some thinking around people and groups use of multiple social networks. Specifically, I use LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook in a more or less interconnected way. LinkedIn serves of course as a business networking "marketplace" and it's tools have evolved to allow me and many others to facilitate our immediate and specific needs. Many of the same people I've come to know well on LinkedIn end up as Facebook contacts who we begin to share more personal parts of our lives in family and "after work" thoughts and insights. This Facebook relationship can drive a closer connection with the business dealings on LinkedIn. Twitter in it's way helps me facilitate conversations with people on an immediate way who we may not want to form deeper relationships with but nonetheless in a memorable way.

   Langston Richardson/ VP, Digital Strategy / Lazbro / www.lazbro.com / twitter: @MATSNL65 @lazbro

4. Steve Patrizi from LinkedIn Corp
   

   commented on: October 15, 2009 at 2:13 AM
   Hi Mark - Thanks for the coverage. We're excited about this announcement and the opportunity that it represents for marketers; with 50M members and growing by 1 million every 12 days, the LinkedIn community is now one of the largest concentrated audiences of professionals in the world. We're also excited about the momentum that we're seeing in our advertising business. While this has been a very challenging year for publishers large and small, our ad revenues are up more than 50% year over year and our growth in ad sales has been accelerating in the second half of the year. This growth is being fueled by a wide range of well-respected brand marketers: technology advertisers looking to reach IT decision makers, travel marketers looking to reach mobile professionals, corporate advertisers looking to reach business executives, and consumer advertisers looking to reach affluent and successful individuals. Moreover, any inventory that we're not selling to well-known brand advertisers is being very effectively monetized through our self-serve DirectAds product that LinkedIn members use to advertise to other members, which puts us in the very fortunate situation of not having to rely on any third party ad sellers to sell our inventory. Thanks again for the coverage, we’re looking forward to your coverage of our future milestones. Cheers, Steve Patrizi VP, Advertising Sales & Operations LinkedIn Corporation http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevepatrizi @spatrizi

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